Physics Dot Matrix

I was messing around with interactive backgrounds and thought this was really cool. Because this is HTML DOM manipulation, the performance is not realistic. It is still cool to play with though.

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InteractiveBackground

Vibes usage

Vibes usage30%

AI helped with physics math and requestAnimationFrame patterns for the particle system. The cursor-following behavior and DOM manipulation approach were iterated on with AI suggestions, though the final implementation was hand-tuned for performance.

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